Easy Access: How to Control Your Apple Watch From Your iPhone - PCMag

Navigating and utilizing your Apple Watch straight tin sometimes beryllium a challenge, particularly if immoderate obstacle interferes with your quality to manipulate the watch’s tiny surface and controls. In that case, you whitethorn privation to enlist your iPhone to power your watch. By turning connected Apple Watch Mirroring, you pat and interaction an representation of your ticker connected your telephone to entree antithetic menus, activate cardinal features, and motorboat assorted apps.

As an accessibility feature, Apple Watch Mirroring is particularly geared toward radical with carnal oregon centrifugal disabilities who whitethorn tally into difficulties trying to usage their Apple Watch directly. But the diagnostic tin beryllium adjuvant for anyone successful a concern wherever it’s easier to power the ticker from the phone’s larger screen. This enactment requires iOS 16 connected your iPhone and watchOS 9 connected an Apple Watch Series 6 oregon later. Here's however it works.

Update to iOS 16 and watchOS 9

First, update your iPhone to iOS 16 oregon higher. Go to Settings > General > Software Updates. You’ll beryllium told that iOS is up to day oregon beryllium asked to download and instal the latest update.

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Next, update your Apple Watch to watchOS 9 oregon higher. On your phone, unfastened the Watch app. At the My Watch screen, spell to General > Software Update. You’ll beryllium told that your Apple Watch is up to day oregon beryllium prompted to download the latest update.

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Make Sure Your Apple Watch and iPhone Are Paired

Put your ticker connected your wrist. On your iPhone, spell to Settings > Accessibility > Apple Watch Mirroring. Turn connected the power for Apple Watch Mirroring. Wait for your telephone to link to your watch. The surface connected your iPhone past displays your ticker with its existent watch face, portion your ticker surface itself is encircled with a bluish outline.

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Control Your Watch Via the iPhone

You tin present determination astir your watch, entree antithetic features, and activate antithetic commands by tapping and touching the representation connected your phone. To interact with your existent ticker face, pat the representation connected your phone. To power from 1 ticker look to another, swipe near oregon close connected the representation connected your phone.

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Swipe down connected the representation to presumption your latest notifications; swipe up to entree your ticker settings.

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Press the broadside fastener connected the representation to amusement the Dock. Press it again to instrumentality to the ticker face.

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Press the Digital Crown connected the representation to presumption the Home screen. You tin past swipe your digit to determination astir the screen.

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Press down connected the Digital Crown to activate Siri and inquire a question oregon contented a command.

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Finally, pat an icon oregon diagnostic that you privation to entree oregon launch. You tin past participate accusation oregon tally commands by tapping connected the representation conscionable arsenic you’d pat straight connected your watch. When you’re done mirroring your watch, pat the X successful the precocious close adjacent to the sanction of your ticker to disconnect.

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